The Vice-President has said notwithstanding the recent volatility of the cedi, data shows that it has seen the slowest depreciation against the US dollar for the first 18 months of any government since 1993.

The World Bank last Friday approved two International Development Association credits of $60 million for the Ghana Energy Sector Transformation Initiative Project and the Ghana Tourism Development Project.

The new President of the Association of Certified Financial Markets (ACI), has said fair prices and availability of enough forex on the market can go a long way to reduce the operations of ‘black market’.

Blended finance is a new buzzword in the development finance discourse. While some key definitions and modalities are still under debate, the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC) has set out the “rules of the game” alongside publication of a flagship report.